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Chi Yiyin came stepping on the corpses and dust all over the ground, and the candle in his hand was the only light source in the entire darkness.

Even though the rotting corpses twisted and roared around him, he just closed his eyes and smiled calmly, his expression indifferent, and he didn't pay attention to the hellish scene at all.

"Come on, it's safe outside now."

Chi Yiyin smiled and stepped out to invite them. The gentleman's gentle appearance made it impossible to imagine that he had just killed all the rotting corpses by himself.

Jing Cha couldn't help holding her breath, and looked at Chi Yiyin in astonishment as if she wanted to say something.

But he finally moved his mouth, and looked at the corpses all over the ground behind Chi Yiyin with a complicated expression.

With the help of the weak light, the corpses stretched to the end of the darkness, densely packed and unrecognizable in number, as frightening as locusts.

Jing Cha originally wanted to ask why he didn't let him make a move. But when he saw the dust all over the ground, he suddenly realized the reason.

Even if he can have many rabbits and is not afraid of encirclement and wheel battles, but if he wants to let the rabbits kill all the carrion corpses, there is at least a few seconds of time difference after all.

As long as one rotten corpse falls, the rest will be alarmed. They have not yet fully grasped the situation in the cafe, and they cannot be sure whether there will be follow-up troubles caused by linkage.

Instead of endless troubles, it is better to kill all the rotting corpses at the fastest speed.

This is what Jingcha can't do, but Chi Yiyin can.

that book…

Jingcha looked down and landed on the notebook in Chi Yiyin's hand.

Is it the strength that this seemingly ordinary book brings to Chi Yiyin?

His eyes darkened for a moment, several guesses flashed across his mind, and there was hidden surprise and disbelief in his eyes looking at Chi Yiyin.

Could it be... Chi Yiyin is also an awakened one?

Others may think that these are the effects of special props in Chi Yiyin's hands, but Jingcha, who has been paying attention to Chi Yiyin since he first entered the game field, knows that this person spends points like water, and he is still an F-level. Not to mention the complete mismatch in strength, let alone treasure props.

The only thing that can explain it seems to be the awakened one.

But, when did the awakened become a Chinese cabbage? Chu Yueli is, I am, and Chi Yiyin is too? ?

This is also way above the average probability...

Besides, when did Chi Yiyin wake up? He has been paying attention to Chi Yiyin all the time, and he hasn't missed it for a minute. He is about to be complained by the red bird as a pervert, why didn't he find out?

Or, was Chi Yiyin already an awakened person before entering the game field?

As soon as this thought crossed Jingcha's mind, he took a deep breath and couldn't help but let out a "hiss!".

It also attracted Chi Yiyin's attention.

In Chi Yiyin's glance, Jingcha raised his hand and touched his nose inexplicably guilty, and then stepped into the corridor pretending to be nonchalant.

"Let's go, what are you waiting for?"

Jingcha tried her best to make herself look the same as usual, but she didn't know that all her reactions had fallen into Chi Yiyin's eyes.

His performance might fool everyone, but Chi Yiyin noticed the stiff and tense muscles around his lips, as well as his instinctive self-protection movements with a slight shrug.

Jingcha was afraid of him—what was she afraid of?

The fear that a well-known force faction in the game field will show in front of him is definitely not because of force.

People will feel guilty in areas they are not familiar with, especially when they fall into a disadvantage.

And the disadvantage of Jingcha...

Chi Yiyin frowned imperceptibly, his eyes followed Jing Cha who passed by him, and in a short moment, he knew it in his heart.

Jingcha's disadvantage, of course, is his mind. He is afraid of a guilty conscience because he is covering up something, lest he be discovered by himself.

What did you find?

Chi Yiyin pondered, then a smile slowly appeared on his lips, and his eyes fell on the notebook in his hand.

Jingcha is guessing, is the notebook his own "prop", or is he simply an awakened one?

"Where did these things come from? We didn't see them in the lobby on the first floor before."

Jingcha passed Chi Yiyin, originally trying to find something to do in order to hide his guilty conscience, but after seeing the corpse and the thick pile of powder, he immediately became serious, leaned over and looked at the remains on the ground.

"Just judging from the range and thickness of these powders, there are at least a thousand corpses."

Jingcha squatted beside the corpse, raised her head and looked at Red Bird seriously: "Do you think there is a place for them to hide in this cafe?"

The red bird was surprised: "If I don't have any information, it can only be a box. But how is it possible! Did they hide in the box before we couldn't see it?"

"It's possible, but it's also possible that it came from the alley, Hong, does the cafe have a back door? Or is it possible that the store manager simply let it in through the front door, just to kill us?"

Jingcha and Red Bird have already entered the state, and the partners have a tacit understanding.

But he didn't know that Chi Yiyin, who was standing not far away, had seen him clearly.

But Chi Yiyin didn't break through Jingcha's little thought, but after taking a few deep glances at the other party, he turned his head as if nothing had happened, and walked along the corridor into the darkness.

When a rabbit grows up, he must have some secrets of his own, right?

Jingcha and Red Bird talked back and forth, but kept looking quietly at Chi Yiyin, for fear that he would have discovered his gaffe just now.

Fortunately, Chi Yiyin behaved as usual, which made Jingcha heave a sigh of relief, and then recalled his guess just now.

However, that is impossible, right?

Awakened outside the game field? Never heard of such a thing.

Although Jingcha looks down on rubbish, he is an excellent combat expert, and he will never appear arrogant and lead to a fiasco.

In order to keep his title, he could kill everyone who tried to provoke him, so how could he ignore the investigation of the awakened group?

It can be said that every awakened person in the game field, Jingcha knows the general situation of the other party. Even if they are blocked a lot due to the effect of the awakening ability, there is no shortage of basic information.

For example, when and where the other party was awakened.

Awakening can bring people the power to break through the limits of human beings, which means that people must have advantages beyond human beings. At the moment of awakening, the strongest emotion can shake the shackles that human beings have always been, and then break through.

That is to say, the conditions for awakening will to a certain extent symbolize what type of power the awakened person will obtain.

Self-preservation, or hatred? Do you want to hide safely in the fortress, or do you want to change the world in anger?

Many people think that awakened people are just lucky in blood, but Jingcha is very clear that it is the willpower of people that guides everything.

Only by transcending death and overcoming fear can one gain extraordinary power and support the awakened person to realize his wish.

The only thing that can maximize people's emotions and potential is the playground.

How many people will feel the fear of being with death all the time in reality?

Humans have been escaping instinctively.

Only when you are cornered by death, will you make a desperate fight, with a strong desire to tear your own limitations.

As a personal experiencer, Jingcha is very clear about such emotions.

That's why he couldn't believe that Chi Yiyin was awakened outside the game field.

Impossible... If awakening in reality, how much determination would it take?

Jingcha's gaze followed Chi Yiyin secretly, a guess appeared in his mind, and he crossed it silently. He felt that this guess seemed reasonable, but in fact it was not feasible at all.

Thinking of this, he shook his head mockingly, put the thought behind him, turned around and continued looking at the carrion with Red Bird intently.

However, what Jingcha did not expect was...

Impossible things will become possible when they fall on Chi Yiyin.

Chi Yiyin naturally handed the notebook to the side while walking, and Ma Yuze immediately emerged from the air and took the notebook.

How to protect the book that can be used as power?

— let the subject of another book protect it.

"Is this Mr.'s new book?"

Ma Yuze was a little surprised, and then looked at Chi Yiyin with sparkling eyes, like a little girl who was asking if she could eat candy, without the ruthless aura that just blocked all the rotting corpses alone.

She knew that Chi Yiyin was writing the book just now, but she didn't expect that Chi Yiyin would write so fast and hand the book into her hands.

Ma Yuze couldn't help but want to take a look, his heart was itchy like being scratched by a kitten.

The book that Chi Yiyin promised to Gu Xichao has not officially started writing, which also makes Ma Yuze, who is curious about Chi Yiyin, a little regretful.

She couldn't put it down because of the books Chi Yiyin wrote for herself, so she became more curious about Chi Yiyin, and wanted to know what other books he wrote would look like.

It's a pity that Chi Yiyin's books are all in the real world, and Ma Yuze can't find any books to read in the game field for the time being, which makes her feel very sorry.

Until now, she saw another book by Chi Yiyin.

—and she had seen firsthand the effect the book had.

All the rotting corpses were wiped out in an instant... Even if she made a move, she couldn't achieve such an instant killing effect.

She can't wait to see what a book that can produce such an effect looks like.

Ma Yuze's eyes were shining brightly, as if the sky was full of stars falling into the lake, it was unbearable to refuse her request.

Chi Yiyin smiled and shook her head, her eyes were gentle: "Since I handed it to you, I am not only giving it to you for safekeeping temporarily, but also letting you see it. You don't need to ask me, just open it."

He raised his hand with a smile, pointed to his eyes, and motioned to Ma Yuze: "Since you came out, your eyes are almost glued to the notebook. How could I not notice it?"

Ma Yuze pursed his lips, his cheeks flushed slightly, but soon he happily nodded to Chi Yiyin with the book in his arms, and then impatiently opened the notebook.

She was so fascinated by it that she even forgot her duty as a "bodyguard".

Obviously following Chi Yiyin's side should take good care of his back, and prevent any possible danger from suddenly appearing from the darkness to attack him, but she has been engrossed in the book, following the strong and straight man in front like a chick. Walking from behind, completely ignoring the perception of the outside world.

Chi Yiyin noticed it, but didn't say a word to remind her. Instead, like a young girl who was curious about the world, she let Ma Yuze do what she liked with the pampering deeply buried in her actions.

At an angle that Ma Yuze couldn't see, the smile on Chi Yiyin's lips gradually faded.

【system. 】

This was the thirty-sixth time he called the system, but whether it was in the box or now that they had returned to the cafe, the system remained silent, as if it didn't exist at all.

But the power of Jingcha has taken effect again, and Chi Yiyin saw the black rabbit jumping on the floor of the corridor, which is enough to prove that this is not an illusion, but a real "reality", and this is indeed a cafe.

The system that should have always existed in theory is now absent... Is it related to the sudden appearance of rotting corpses?

Chi Yiyin frowned in thought.

He didn't think these corpses were the work of the store manager, or even something that a cafe would do.

In addition to the news brought by the red bird that the current situation is unusual, the reason why Chi Yiyin made such a judgment is also because of his understanding of the cafe manager.

At the candlelight concert, Chi Yiyin could see clearly that although the woman who played was sad and numb, she looked at the store manager with gratitude and dependence in her eyes, as if a child felt relieved when she saw her mother.

The store manager also looked back at the performers with a smile, and tried his best to give encouragement and support.

Those who can do such things will not allow rotting corpses to enter the cafe and endanger the soul in the cafe.

Chi Yiyin can see clearly that the store manager is more like a mother than a barista or a manager.

Perhaps in the store manager's view, the dolls in the entire cafe are her children, and they need her protection.

Everywhere in the cafe is meticulously maintained and spotless. How could the store manager have the heart to destroy it again when he built it all by himself?

People always have extraordinarily different emotions for things and constructions that they personally participate in.

In this way, that is to say, in front of the rotten corpse, the two sides that were originally in a state of hostility suddenly stood in the same camp.

They share a common enemy with the store manager - the rotting corpses who wantonly destroy the dirty cafe.

On the wall on the second floor was an old tempera oil painting. Chi Yiyin took a closer look, and then raised his eyebrows.

This turned out to be an authentic work seven or eight centuries ago?

It's just a pity that the well-preserved oil paintings hanging here have already been printed with black and red sticky palm prints, which seem to be the traces of rotting corpses that fell randomly when they passed by here.

After the store manager finds out about this, he will probably go crazy.

Chi Yiyin shook her head and chuckled—if the store manager was the planner, then all these oil painting decorations should be replaced with fake ones. How could the original ones be damaged like this?

The corridor on the second floor seems to never end. There are only rows of paintings on the walls on both sides, all of which are extinct treasures.

These paintings are enough to cause a sensation in reality and prop up an art gallery, but now they shine with their beauty in such a dark place, and no one appreciates them.

There are no windows and doors in the long corridor, but the excellent paintings are shining brightly under the faint candlelight, which made Chi Yiyin stop.

Here is like the tomb of all good things. There is no noise and wandering here, but only quiet and shady peace, which is no different from death.

Finally, when Chi Yiyin felt the **** smell coming from the wind blowing head-on, he stopped in his tracks, and looked intently at the darkness not far away.

Even the candlelight couldn't illuminate it, like a monster with its **** mouth wide open, quietly waiting for the unlucky prey to rush in and be swallowed by the darkness.

The wind blew through the silver-gray hair, bringing a fine itching sensation on the cheeks and neck, as if an invisible hand had passed by, and something was hidden by his side, waiting for an opportunity to move.

Chi Yiyin remained calm and moved forward holding the candle high.

But the candle flame flickered desperately, and then it was blown out by the wind with a sound of "Hoo!".

Everything fell into darkness again.

The hidden monster opened its eyes, and stretched out its hand to Chi Yiyin from an imperceptible place, trying to swallow him into its belly.

Chi Yiyin closed her eyes instantly, preventing her eyes from touching the darkness, and then softly called: "Yu Ze..."

In this inescapable darkness, light is needed—light brought by you.

The voice fell, and in an instant, the sun suddenly appeared, cutting through the darkness, making everything inescapable.

Ma Yuze stood beside Chi Yiyin, with solemn and firm eyes, just like the one depicted in the book Chi Yiyin wrote for her.

Firm, brave, bright, and indomitable.

When she is there, there will always be light, and she will not fall into the deepest darkness forever.

This is the "concept" given to Ma Yuze by Chi Yiyin, and the firm expectation will become a reality, reflected in the copy, and become the real sun.

Do you think that as long as you blow out the candlelight, you can deprive him of all perception?

Whoever was behind it all was wrong.

Chi Yiyin hooked her lips, then slowly opened her eyes, and followed the light of the sun to look at the abyss ahead again.

Because he closed his eyes resolutely at the moment when the candlelight was extinguished, he had never been in contact with completely dark eyes, and he didn't need a long adaptation period to adapt well to the light and see everything in front of him clearly.

Just below his feet was a bottomless abyss, a **** wind blowing up from below, cold and smelly, like a huge tomb.

The corridor on the second floor is like a cliff, and the abyss... is hell.

Corpses are piled up here and there, so high that they almost catch up with Chi Yiyin's height. As long as those corpses stretch out their hands, they can grab Chi Yiyin's ankle.

But Chi Yiyin could see clearly that among those corpses, some of them were obviously more like living people than others, with stable features, and the corpses were intact, not the rotten appearance he saw in the corridor before.

However, the intact corpse slept peacefully in the abyss, while the rotting corpse climbed along the rugged cliff, trying to grab the broken board of the corridor on the second floor with all its strength.

Chi Yiyin finally knew where these corpses had been hidden all along.

Outside the cafe... there is clearly another space.

No, it should be said that the cafe is more like being built on top of hell, guarding the place and preventing the corpses from leaving.

[System, shouldn't this be part of the dungeon, right? No matter in the name of the copy or in the red envelope, there was never any reminder of the existence of hell. 】

Chi Yiyin smirked: [The system that never made mistakes, finally made mistakes? If the other players in the game find out, I don't know if it will cause panic. 】

[But that's fine too. 】

He took a step back casually, raised his long legs and kicked away the rotten bone claws that were trying to grab him, but he didn't have the idea of ​​suppressing the abyss and solving these rotting corpses instead of the cafe.

[Crisis will bring motivation, and death can wake up the sleeping people. If the players know the situation in this dungeon, and even know that the system is not reliable, then they will wake up from the dream in the temporary residence area, knowing that it will depend on them Protect yourself and overturn the game field. 】

Chi Yiyin smiled with an extremely sincere tone: [Thank you, System. 】

system:……

The alarm sounded, and the system finally got out of the continuous busyness for a short time, and refocused on the situation of [Doll Cafe].

Unexpectedly, as soon as its perception system entered the dungeon, it suddenly heard Chi Yiyin's words.

No, that's not gratitude, it's gratitude to eighteen generations of ancestors!

If the system had a body like a human, it would like to have a face-to-face fight with Chi Yiyin.

It especially wants to ask Chi Yiyin, in fact, his job is not a novelist at all, but a devil, right?

System: I thought I was already a dog, but I didn't expect to meet someone who was even worse than me... I couldn't beat or kill him, after all, it was the person I liked.

The only thing that makes the system feel lucky is that it is not human and has no hair to shed.

—Otherwise, he would have been bald!

Chi Yiyin's guess was right. The reason why the system has not responded to calls is because there is a serious crisis in the copy and needs to be repaired.

It is as busy as a repairman, diligent and conscientious, hard-working, no gratitude, but it is threatened by Chi Yiyin!

System: Those who hear it are sad, those who hear it cry...

But the key point is that what Chi Yiyin said is not wrong. What he described to the system is indeed the most likely scenario, which is exactly the same as the probability result calculated by the system.

No matter how unhappy the system was, it could only hold back its breath, and tried to put on a professional working tone and asked hypocritically: [Survivor Chi Yiyin, may I help you? 】

Chi Yiyin raised her eyebrows, and raised her finger to the **** under her feet: 【Are you blind? 】

He also added a very sincere sentence: [Please don't misunderstand, I am not scolding you, but stating an objective fact. Oh yes, for your system, you should ask if the monitor is broken, right? 】

【So, are you blind? 】

system:【……】

I've never been so speechless!

【of course not. 】

The mechanical sound showed a bit of gnashing of teeth, and the system quickly checked the **** under Chi Yiyin's feet. The data had already explained everything, but of course it would not tell Chi Yiyin the truth.

In order to confuse the pass, the system said that this is a copy.

But in exchange Chi Yiyin let out a disdainful sneer.

[But I didn't hear the task prompt? Either you're lying, it's not a copy at all - in that case, you're violating the no lie rule. 】

[Or, this is indeed a dungeon, but you didn't prompt... You have a problem, right? 】

Chi Yiyin smiled leisurely, but with a few words, he pushed the system into a dead end step by step: [Is there a problem with the code logic of the "system" itself, or is it a copy, or is it a game field? 】

The database of the system was in disorder for a thousandth of a second. If it was a human being, it would already be in a cold sweat.

It realized that Chi Yiyin had given it a logical endless loop. No matter how it answered, it would fall into the trap set by Chi Yiyin, and what's more, it would reveal the truth about the game field.

At this moment, the system actually became afraid of Chi Yiyin as a player.

The hunter is afraid of his prey, afraid of being found out by the prey.

The relationship between the positions of the two actually changed at this moment.

What the system thought of was what Li Sijun once said to it.

"In front of Yinyin, you'd better be a stone pillar who doesn't know anything, otherwise, even if it's a **** statue, he can see the **** himself. Any living person who appears in front of Yinyin can't keep his secret, you His speech and behavior betrayed you and became his pawn."

At that time, Li Sijun smiled lightly, his eyes full of admiration: "How could such a person fail? He is my voice, the one who will fulfill the prophecy."

The system once scoffed at it, thinking that it was just an irrational judgment made by Li Sijun contaminated with human emotions.

If you use logic and code to "think" like it, under absolute rationality, you will find that Chi Yiyin is just a paper tiger.

But now, when the system recalled the conversation at that time, it only felt ironic.

It realized that Li Sijun was right—Chi Yiyin, don't mess with it.

It is the one that has not seen through.

But now, it's too late.